• United Methodists to Debate Transgender Clergy

Resolutions to the United Methodist convention related to sexuality and gender number in the hundreds, but an increasing number deal with transgender people after the church's highest court permitted Baltimore pastor Drew Phoenix to remain in his pulpit. Gender change had not been addressed in the church's constitution, the Judicial Council ruled last October. In light of that decision, some conservative Methodists now want to see church rules codify that transgender people should not be allowed as clergy.